enervation
Example Sentences
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If this level of enervation persisted, it could take years to make it through all three seasons of “Succession.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
Radio and television broadcasts about these events make up part of Suspiria’s murmuring ambient soundtrack, though the facts of what happened seem less important than the general mood of anxiety and enervation.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2018
Scrape away the hype and the hyperbole, the enervation and the exhaustion, and you find any number of more useful or wrenching impulses: kindness, hatred, antipathy, humanity, pity, awe, disgust, even ambivalence.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2018
In contrast, failure naturally elicits bitterness, resentment, dolour, enervation, listlessness, pessimism and low self‑esteem – a pretty ugly package.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013
In other words, the enervation of the Kamakura Shogunate disappointed those torch-bearers of the new civilisation, who might perhaps have expected too much from the political power of the military government established there.
From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Katsuro Hara
